!!!Sudan: Geography
||Location|north-eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea
||Geographic Coordinates|15 00 N, 30 00 E[{GoogleMap location='15.0,30.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''1,861,484 sq km\\''land: ''NA\\''water: ''NA__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 1861484\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 1886068\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 1861484\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 1861484\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 1844797\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 1886000''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''6,751 km\\''border countries: ''Central African Republic 175 km, Chad 1,360 km, Egypt 1,275 km, Eritrea 605 km, Ethiopia 769 km, Libya 383 km, South Sudan 2,184 km\\''__note:__ ''Sudan-South Sudan boundary represents 1 January 1956 alignment; final alignment pending negotiations and demarcation; final sovereignty status of Abyei region pending negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan
||Coastline|853 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Red Sea 0 m\\''highest point: ''Jabal Marrah 3,071 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Jebel Uweinat 1934 m; Nuba Mountains 1325 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Kirsin Tonga 2799 m; Idwa 2248 m; Mogulduma 2167 m; Jabal Dara 2080 m; Jabal Ubbor 2077 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] 
||Terrain|generally flat, featureless plain; desert dominates the north
||Natural Hazards|dust storms and periodic persistent droughts
||Natural Resource|petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold; hydropower
||Land Use|''arable land: ''6.76%\\''permanent crops: ''0.07%\\''other: ''93.17% (2011)
||Climate|hot and dry; arid desert; rainy season varies by region (April to November)
||Irrigated Land|18,900 sq km (2010)
||Renewable Water Resources|64.5 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|inadequate supplies of potable water; wildlife populations threatened by excessive hunting; soil erosion; desertification; periodic drought
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Umm Durman; Khartoum; al-Khartum Bahri; Niyala; Kassala\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Khartoum; Omdurman; Port Sudan; Kassala; El Obeid\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Africa/Sudan/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|dominated by the Nile and its tributaries